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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780300190007, Yale University Press, January 2020
600 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 133 colour images, 59 black&white illus.
A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the m...
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£115,00
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Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...
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£16,00
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Black Power, Jewish Politics Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
ISBN: PB: 9781512602579, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known fo...
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£28,00
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Roads Taken The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
ISBN: PB: 9780300234398, ISBN: HB: 9780300178647, Yale University Press, March 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world's Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable stor...
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£16,99
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£25,00
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Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...
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£16,99
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Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan
ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...
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£28,00
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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 10: 1973-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780300135534, Yale University Press, January 2013
1280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 169 colour images, 58 black&white illus.
This first published volume in the 'Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization' introduces readers to the diversity of Jewish civilization since 1973. The volume vividly demonstrates the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes across continents...
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£130,00
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In the Demon's Bedroom Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern
ISBN: HB: 9780300141757, Yale University Press, January 2011
384 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
A study that looks at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks – and their writers and readers – focusing on their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.
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£66,00
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Spirit of the Quakers
ISBN: PB: 9780300167368, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practise? At the heart of their faith lies the conviction that everyone can have a direct experience of God without the mediation of priests or religious leaders. They express this in a uniq...
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£9,99
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Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston
ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...
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£24,00
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